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What Is the Role and Nature of Language and Language Development?
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Benati, Alessandro – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
In this paper, the role and nature of language and language development will be discussed. Research and theory in second language acquisition has demonstrated that (i) language is an abstract, implicit and complex system. Input (ii) plays a key role in language development; despite the fact that some knowledge of language is innate (iii). Overall,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Input